Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-06-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AN English fashion Dotesaye: CIV
cry nice woman has given up wearing
birds"
A PITT5BURG horse has been in the
employ OF the government for over
twenty years.
THE Bloomington (Ill) Leader esti-
mates that fully 500 families left Nc.
Lean County for Kansas.
IT must have been g. fine muffin reci-
pc for which New York lady paid
baker $50 the other day.
THERE is to be g. Scotch Presbyte-
rian Church In Boston in which the SER
vices will be conducted in Gaelic.
A CITIZEN of Philadelphia, who died
q short time ago, com planned in his
will because his wife's dowry was not
larger.
The highest price ever paid for an
orchid, 1925, was given last week in
London for cypripedium Stonel pla-
tytenium.
"SILoTWoR" is q new explosive ten
times the strength of gunpowder. ex
| ploding without smoke or noise. A
Russian invented it.
A WEATHER report from Canada
gives the cheerful information that
yesterday the baby frogs took off
their chest protectors"
AN irreverent exchange speaks of
the five leading members of the Ha-
waiian royal party as "royal flush
with queen at the head"
A NEW type setting machine has
been invented by New York man.
It is said that the types are thrown
into a hopper and come out ready for
use.
A MONSTER shark, thirty-fve feet
long, twenty feet in circumference, and
weighing over four tons, was captured
recently in Monterey Bay, on the Pa
cifc coast.
AN Algerian lion slayer who had
killed 200 lions has received the order
Of the Legion of Honor The prize
paid by the government for each lion
is 100 francs.
THE Chinese government spent
$14, 400 to get the $4,000 appro-
priated by Congress to indemnify the
Chinese for the losses they incurred in
the Rock Springs riots.
AS timber, iron, and labor is cheap.
er at Mobile, Ala, than any other
place in the country, it is likely that
q snip building yard will shortly be
established in that place.
| AMONG the dry goods fabrics of
100 years ago were Nigga memoor-
dies, Madras Pat handkerchiefs,
Aleabad mowsannas, Chitabully raj
tas, and Jellapour sannas.
GREENFIELD, Mass, having voted
not to grant liquor licenses, it's 6hirs-
ty citizens are now cultivating g. taste
for hard cider, which is said to be
"literally flowing into town."
THE Cathedral Of Florence, 80 long
wanting in essential feature, g. face,
has within the last few years been &C
curing one, which is to be unveiled to
the public on the 18th Of May.
DUNsINANE estate in Scotland, which
comprises Dunsinane Hill, the sup
posed site of Macbeth's castle, is for
sale. 1t has been in possession Of the
Marine family for several centuries.
The oldest Christian Church is that
OF Bethlehem, built in the year A. D.
327, by the Empress Helena, mother
Of Constantine the Great. It is
known as the Church Of the Nativity.
THE bronze figure Of William Penn
which is to surmount the tower of the
new public building in Philadelphia
will be thirty-six feet in height. It
will be more than a year before it is
completed.
JOHN VAN Dorm, of Ithaca, N. Y,
displays g. root thirty-fve feet long,
that he cut from butternut tree.
The tree from which it was cut was
only five years old, and was not four
inches through.
The Lick telescope will not be COM
pleted by July /, as was expected, ow-
ing to delay in making the huge tube,
fifty-six feet long and three feet in d.
ameter, which is in process of con-
struction at Cleveland, O.
AT an elegant dinner near Philadel-
phia the table, over fifty feet long
was set with cut glass only. A bed
roses extended it's entire length, and
little wax candles before each guest
lighted the entertainment.
"THE war is all over now" said an
old Alabama farmer the other day,
can | ant got no illwill toward no
| OOOy, you, AcNAS uiO IL GuS Ou1JOU
States building don't always seem to
me to be therein, an not our'n.
WHAT is the plural of s'two- and-a-
half" the colloquial term for % per
cent. bonds? inquiries the New York
Commercial Advertiser. Sir John
Lubbock says 1.-TWO and-a-h halves" or
"twos-and- a half" or "twos-and-
one" or "twOs- and-halves ?"
IT is not generally known that Ros-
ton possesses fine collection of the
"oh-oh feathers, which have been no.
ticed as one of the most priced posses
sions of Hawaiian royalty In the
Museum of Fine Arts there is an ele-
CANT coat composed of the rare feath-
ers.
THERE are fewer homes and
fewer children in San Fran
cisco, CAL, than in any other
city Of its size IN the world. 1t is
practically g. mans city. The clubs